The Geodynamics Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center conducts "research into the structure, dynamics, and evolution of the solid Earth and planets using space-techniques and remote sensing data." The website features the Branch's latest scientific findings, internship opportunities, and annual reports. Users can find fantastic images and text detailing many of its research projects such as...

NASA's Hurricanes and Tropical Storms website offers a number of resources about the science and history of hurricanes and tropical cyclones, including articles, photographs, videos, and more. These resources may be appreciated by those who want to keep abreast of current hurricane and tropical storm activity as well as science instructors. On the site's homepage, visitors will find up-to-date...

While many artists and photographs aim to get up close-up images of the national parks, NASA is able to offer a unique perspective by capturing national parks from space. In honor of the recent centennial of the U.S. National Park Service, NASA's Earth Observatory compiled this collection of "NASA's best images of national parks and other federal lands, along with stories of earth science in those...

This website describes a satellite instrument designed by the Jet Propulsion Lab that will fly aboard NASA's Aura spacecraft in June 2004 and will study Earth's troposphere and ozone. The website provides links to information on the TES status, TES data products, mission details, the science behind TES, and related TES publications. The Gallery section includes animations and image plots of...

The National Academy of Sciences has had many distinguished members, and since 1877 they have published brief biographical sketches of their members who have passed away. During the past year, the Academy has begun to digitize these sketches in order to place them online on this site. Previously only those sketches published since 1995 were available on the site, so this initiative will offer...

Guess what: On the National Atlas website you can find and make thousands of maps. It's just as interesting as it sounds to let these maps "tell their own stories." This work began as part of an effort to create a new national atlas back in 1997, and since that time it has grown exponentially to include participatory mapping, fact sheets, and much more. Its "father" atlas was created in 1970 and...

Housed at the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the Geophysical Statistics Project seeks "to encourage the application and further development of statistical analysis to the problems faced in the Earth sciences." The GSP website seeks to accomplish some of this goal by offering all sorts of related information for interested...

At the Scout Report, we are all about the continued promotion of science education in the classroom and apparently our readers are, too. This website from the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) was the most shared resource by Scout Report readers this past year and details a variety of publications reporting on climate change and the creationism/evolution controversy. The site...

As the world's largest active archive of weather data, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is truly a force of nature. The organization operates the World Data Center for Meteorology in Asheville, NC as well as the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology in Boulder, CO. The material offered includes data sets that track historical climate data throughout the United States and material on...

According to the National Climatic Data Center, which is a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2014 was the warmest year globally since record keeping began in 1880. This website presents the report in an easily digestible format, with tables, maps, and bullet pointed lists. Highlights include the global land and ocean temperatures, which were both the highest on...